Project Description

Cyanotypes are a photographic printing process that use a mixture of potassium ferricyanide and ferric ammonium to create a cyan-colored print. The cyanotypes in this series feature an image I took of Vinales Valley, Cuba when I traveled there in 2016. I created a digital negative, hand-coated the paper, and exposed these images under UV lighting in the darkroom. The cyanotypes below were then toned with different chemicals for varying amounts of time to alter the color of the final image and paper.

Toned Cyanotypes

pepsi

bleached, then toned in chai

bleached, then toned in coffee

black tea & wine

bleached, then toned in wine & black tea

red wine

red wine